3. A brief history of Alt.
• Started in June with “The
Discovery Team”
4. A brief history of Alt.
• Started in June with “The
Discovery Team”
• Building consensus among
worship leaders
5. A brief history of Alt.
• Started in June with “The
Discovery Team”
• Building consensus among
worship leaders
• Budget allocation
6. A brief history of Alt.
• Started in June with “The
Discovery Team”
• Building consensus among
worship leaders
• Budget allocation
• A music director found
7. A brief history of Alt.
• Started in June with “The
Discovery Team”
• Building consensus among
worship leaders
• Budget allocation
• A music director found
• Setting the “launch date”
9. The Discovery Team
• Conversations
-- About our experiences
-- With “non-churched” friends
-- With church members
10. The Discovery Team
• Conversations
-- About our experiences
-- With “non-churched” friends
-- With church members
• Readings
-- Great Emergence
-- Sacred Space
-- Tribal Church
-- unChristian
-- Emerging Worship
12. The Discovery Team
• Observations
-- “Genesis”, FUMC, Hurst
-- “The Search”, FCC, Ft.
Worth
13. The Discovery Team
• Observations
-- “Genesis”, FUMC, Hurst
-- “The Search”, FCC, Ft.
Worth
• Readings
-- Great Emergence
-- Sacred Space
-- Tribal Church
-- unChristian
-- Emerging Worship
14. The Discovery Team
• Observations
-- “Genesis”, FUMC, Hurst
-- “The Search”, FCC, Ft.
Worth
• Readings
-- Great Emergence
-- Sacred Space
-- Tribal Church
-- unChristian
-- Emerging Worship
• From this came
The Core Values
16. The Core Values
• These Core Values are meant
to drive the imagination of
those designing the worship
and those who participate
17. The Core Values
• These Core Values are meant
to drive the imagination of
those designing the worship
and those who participate
• They are not meant to
“design” the worship. They are
ethos.
18. The Core Values
• These Core Values are meant
to drive the imagination of
those designing the worship
and those who participate
• They are not meant to
“design” the worship. They are
ethos.
• These Core Values exist here
at FPCGV! This is not a
statement of what we aren’t
doing. Rather a reinforcement
of what we want to
emphasize.
20. Radical Hospitality
• We strive for authentic
relationships and community,
greeting everyone as if it was
Jesus who was entering the
room.
21. Radical Hospitality
• We strive for authentic
relationships and community,
greeting everyone as if it was
Jesus who was entering the
room.
• We are intentional about being
open to all persons, inclusive,
without regard to anything.
22. Radical Hospitality
• We strive for authentic
relationships and community,
greeting everyone as if it was
Jesus who was entering the
room.
• We are intentional about being
open to all persons, inclusive,
without regard to anything.
• We create worship without a
specific sense of “target”
audience or demographic.
27. Relationships
• We lay our foundation through
meaningful relationships.
• We place less emphasis on
converts and recruiting and
more emphasis on
transformation and long-term
relationships.
28. Relationships
• We lay our foundation through
meaningful relationships.
• We place less emphasis on
converts and recruiting and
more emphasis on
transformation and long-term
relationships.
• We allow yourselves to be
honest and transparent,
defining Christianity not by our
successes or status, but by
our need for grace and mercy.
32. Message
• We eagerly and openly invite
the gift of visual and
performing arts. We allow the
artistic expression to stand on
its own, letting each person
see it for themselves.
33. Message
• We eagerly and openly invite
the gift of visual and
performing arts. We allow the
artistic expression to stand on
its own, letting each person
see it for themselves.
• We invite the use of
technology, but only when it
stands to deliver a message.
34. Message
• We eagerly and openly invite
the gift of visual and
performing arts. We allow the
artistic expression to stand on
its own, letting each person
see it for themselves.
• We invite the use of
technology, but only when it
stands to deliver a message.
• The worship service should
not be defined by style of
music or liturgical expression.
38. Theology
• Because many outsiders
perceive Christianity for what
it stands against, we strive to
be perceived by “whatever is
true, noble, right, pure, lovely,
admirable” (Philippians 4:8)
39. Theology
• Because many outsiders
perceive Christianity for what
it stands against, we strive to
be perceived by “whatever is
true, noble, right, pure, lovely,
admirable” (Philippians 4:8)
• We pattern our lives as
disciples Jesus.
40. Theology
• Because many outsiders
perceive Christianity for what
it stands against, we strive to
be perceived by “whatever is
true, noble, right, pure, lovely,
admirable” (Philippians 4:8)
• We pattern our lives as
disciples Jesus.
• Put everything through the
“filter of Jesus”
42. Use of Space
• Symbols of worship are
highlighted and at the center.
43. Use of Space
• Symbols of worship are
highlighted and at the center.
• Seating arranged so that
participants can see each
other.
44. Use of Space
• Symbols of worship are
highlighted and at the center.
• Seating arranged so that
participants can see each
other.
• We will strive to create a
sense of closeness among the
participants.
46. Use of Space
• Because non-traditional
worship services can
sometimes be held outside the
traditional worship space, we
will strive to make any space
as worshipful as possible
50. Change?! We’re
Presbyterians!
• The 8:30 & 11:00 worship
experiences don’t change.
Neither does Christian Ed.
• This is something additional,
not designed to supplant or
replace anything! Ideally, it
becomes another component
of what we do as a family.
51. Change?! We’re
Presbyterians!
• The 8:30 & 11:00 worship
experiences don’t change.
Neither does Christian Ed.
• This is something additional,
not designed to supplant or
replace anything! Ideally, it
becomes another component
of what we do as a family.
• Same use of liturgical values
expressed in creative ways.
54. Change?! We’re
Presbyterians!
• It shouldn’t fracture young and
old. Not an “us” vs. “them”.
We is us.
• Musically and liturgically more
diverse and creative.
58. Who are these
people?
• “Career/Marriage” vs.
“Consumption/Electric
Intimacy”
• Waning trust in things
institutional; more likely to be
“organic”.
59. Who are these
people?
• “Career/Marriage” vs.
“Consumption/Electric
Intimacy”
• Waning trust in things
institutional; more likely to be
“organic”.
• Church needs to make space,
not program.
60. Who are these
people?
• “Career/Marriage” vs.
“Consumption/Electric
Intimacy”
• Waning trust in things
institutional; more likely to be
“organic”.
• Church needs to make space,
not program.
• Need room for all sorts of
people to explore, reject,
accept, deny, love, leave.
